Tr*mp’s doodlegate has us wondering: Is it gay to send pervy drawings to your friends?

After last night’s bombshell report from the Wall Street Journal, even Tr*mp’s staunchest supporters are thinking twice about their allegiance to That Man in the White House.

In the report, we learned about a special typed note allegedly written by Tr*mp, collected and bound in a book by Jeffrey Epstein’s partner in crime Ghislaine Maxwell to celebrate the disgraced mogul’s 50th birthday in 2003.

Referring to things they “have in common” and singing off with “may every day be another wonderful secret,” the letter seems extremely damning, even for a man whose close relationship to Epstein has been a matter of public record for years.

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Hell, even Grok admits that this probably isn’t a hoax!

But the most intriguing aspect of the case by far is the alleged doodle included in the letter.

According to the WSJ, Tr*mp included a doodle depcting, in Sharpie, the outline of a naked woman and signed the drawing in a squiggly font meant to represent the woman’s pubic hair. Which, again, considering we’re talking about Epstein, doesn’t seem at all out of character for the occasion.

The drawing itself hasn’t been released yet, but in light of Tr*mp’s flat denial of doing doodles of any kind, the internet has been quick to pull up some of his old drawings, mostly of the Manhattan skyline.

We know Tr*mp definitely can and does doodle—the question is, would he have done a pervy doodle to send to his straight friend on his birthday? According to certain experts in straight culture, it’s not only likely, it’s a mandatory part of masculinity.

Apparently, this is a thing in straight culture. But we have to wonder—as with many “straight” things—is it a little gay to send your friend pervy drawings?

We don’t know—but we do know it’s a time-honored tradition among straight men in power.

Dwight D. Eisenhower drew a (strangely homoerotic?) doodle on a Congressional meeting memo, Churchill drew airplanes and flowers, and we can’t forget George W. Bush’s unintentionally hilarious paintings. Doodling is, in fact, a more widespread pastime than we know. A 2021 report from the Orlando Sentinel revealed that 75% of people doodle in some capacity.

But how common is it to draw unclothed women and send those drawings to your friends as a birthday gift? We know that the correspondence between Van Gogh and Gaughin often included drawings, and historians have long speculated that those two were getting it on. But who are we to say!

Obviously, we’re not going to get to the bottom of this any time soon. Until the drawing in question is released—and we’re hoping this happens sooner rather than later—we’re just going to have to speculate.

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